On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Ben Summers <b...@fluffy.co.uk> wrote:
> > If I run the ./configure script, Solaris make (which isn't GNU make) will > ignore GNUmakefile and build a broken binary again! > The maintainer of GNU Make, Paul Smith, writes (and i agree with him wholeheartedly, after having spent many painful years maintaining Solaris systems): "Don't hassle with writing portable makefiles, use a portable make instead!" That's Rule #1 on Paul's list of Make rules ( http://make.paulandlesley.org/rules.html). gmake is available for every odd platform out there, though it is not always installed by default. As a user of fossil on an "unusual" platform, I really appreciate all the > effort put into portability: thank you! > But certainly there's a GNU Make distribution for your platform? -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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